Word: choraler
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...When I interviewed for a job at Time four years ago, coincidentally the week before the previous World Cup got under way, I asked the editor, "Do you have anybody in mind to cover 2002?" I can still hear his answer, although in my memory it's set to choral music: "Nobody. Would you like to do it?" And, just to make sure he didn't forget his offer, one of the first pieces I wrote for the magazine was a Viewpoint at the end of France '98. Looking ahead to Asia's first World Cup, I made three predictions...
...recognizable genre that it not only parodies, but does so in a variety of often unexpected ways, while paying a sort of tribute to that which it mocks. A song to unite and rouse unorganized rebels takes the form of a gospel revival number before morphing into a choral piece with an actor gleefully conducting all those around him. An inspirational number that later echoes it mocks not only new age mantras and liberal impracticality, but also the vocal overinflections of rhythm and blues. And a villainous character song suggests the way heads of major corporations view the world while...
...clause has long been the hobgoblin of Harvard’s final clubs, ever since the world changed and they did not. But discrimination per se is not an absolute evil, as even the College admits. The Hasty Pudding Theatricals excludes women from acting in its performances; separate-gender choral groups are widely accepted, and even racial discrimination might be countenanced for a drama group casting Othello. A support group for students recovering from testicular cancer would have good reason to seek the ability to poster—and equally good reason to exclude women, along with all others...
...walk available at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. As you roam through galleries and into the museum's back stairwell, you watch prerecorded images of that route on the foldout screen of a small video camera. But that pedestrian journey is transformed by Cardiff's deadpan reveries, choral music and the sound of ghostly footsteps...
...DeWolfe 38: Digital cable was finally installed in the bedroom of Keith M. Radford ’02. This installation featured a reading by former poet laureate Robert Pinsky, a choral rendition of “10,000 Men of Harvard,” and a rerun of The Facts of Life in which Tootie eats a danish...